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This table is from Appendix A of Big Winners and Big Losers by Alfred Marcus. The bestsellers listed in this table focus on the importance of agility in business strategy.
BookMain Argument About Agility
Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor,The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Large companies lack agility; they almost exclusively make bets on incremental improvements.

Starting with Tom Peters and Robert Waterman's In Search of Excellence, there has been a spate of books that purport to provide managers withthe secrets to sustained competitive advantage (SCA). 1
Jim Collins' and Jerry Porras' best-selling Built to Last is another work in this genre.
The problem with these books is that the prescriptions they make often are contradictory and one sided.

This table is from Appendix A of Big Winners and Big Losers by Alfred Marcus. The bestsellers listed in this table focus on the importance of agility in business strategy.
BookMain Argument About DisciplineMain Argument About Discipline
Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Discipline is integral to strategy execution.